As __February 28, 1968 February 28,1988 1 World Cup returns to Red Mtn. By BRENDAN NAGLE The names and equipment have changed since that The downhill event is slated for Saturday, March 12 and Thursday is the second training run, followed by Staff Writer introduction to World Cup skiing but the objective of today's the Super G is scheduled for Sunday March 13. Rossland Days. There will be a Rossland street parade at 5 Times have changed since Cana first World Cup competitors remains the same. When Laurie Graham On March 8, festivities include Trail Days with the focus p.m. with an all-Canadian turkey and pot-luck dinner at alpine ski event was held at Red Mountain 20 years ago. explodes out of the start house and stokes down through the on Italian heritage. The opening ceremonies will be held at Rossland high school at 6 p.m. The racers will be at the Gone are Jean-Claude Killy, Nancy Greene and the gates, she will have winning on her mind, just as Goeitschel Cominco Arena and tickets can be purchased for $12.50 at dinner and tickets are $10. They can bé purchased at Alpine bulky, awkward equipment they raced down the course in. and Greene did 20 years before her. Seth Martin Sports and Chi ion Sports. The i Drugs and the O.K. Store. Following the dinner there will be Karen Percy and Pirmin Zurbriggen are now the familiar include dinner and entertainment with the doors opening at a Red Feather Saloon and Dance at the Miner's Hall with No names to most Canadians following the World Cup alpine ski baie ‘om: the 6 p.m. Excuse providing the music. Tickets are $6 and can be circuit. And the equipment they use today would have been 1), Husky '88 World Cup downill an: On Wednesday, March 9%, the first training run is purchased at the 0.K. Store. alien to the competitors of two decades ago. heduled. The f 3 will be in Castlegar with Red Mountain hosted the celebrated event March 28-31, Castlegar Days. There will be an artisan craft fair all day in 1968. The slalom and giant slalom were skied by both the Teams will be coming from Austria, France, Great the Sandman Inn ballroom, a Russian heritage dinner at the men and women, marking the first time skiers had competed Britain, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and Community Complex and a meet-the-athletes autograph for FIS World Cup alpine ski points in the country, Yugoslavia. session before the dinner. Autographs will be signed Saturday is the downhill race and Sunday is the Super G France's Marielle Goeitschel won the women's slalom Race organizer Louise Lafontaine said there may be between 5:30 and 6 p.m. and the dinner begins at 6:30. event. Saturday night will include an international fun night event and Greene won the G.S. Killy won the men’s slalom some late bookings by smaller countries, but would not offer Tickets are $12 and are available at the Castlegar with a pub crawl in Castlegar, Trail and Rossland. Funbus Graham will be one of about 75 competitors from 10 i area to take part in d super giant slalom events slated for March 12 and 13 at Red i Friday is the third and final training run. There will be another saloon and dance at the Miner's Hall from 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. 4 and Ny - ges! sont thot your's Castlegar’s Annual Business and Industrial Review and Forecast To be Published Sunday, March 27 To Advertise — Phone Display Advertising 365-5210 and Herbert Huber of Austria won the G.S. any names. FACE-TO-FACE . . . Castlegar Rebels and Beaver Valley Nite Hawks went nose to nose Friday night at the Community Complex and the hometown REBELS EKE OUT 5-4 WIN IN OVERTIME By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The Castlegar Rebels were leading 4-0 early in the third period but had to take Beaver Valley into double overtime before Dave Terhune scored the deciding goal to give the Rebels a narrow 5-4 decision over the Nite Hawks in KIJHL playoff action Friday night at the complex. The Rebels took a 2-0 lead at the end of the penalty-filled — there were 112 minutes in penalties in the first period — opening frame. Both goals were a direct result of Beaver Valley goalie Eric Volpatti coughing the puck up in front of the net on bad clearing passes. Taylor Harding pounced on the first errant clear by Volpatti making it 1-0 Rebels. Terhune capitalized on the second mistake by the Nite Hawk netminder — who was making textbook saves — and made it 2-0. Terhune's goal was unassisted. The Castlegar squad got the lone goal of the middle frame from Dave Zarikoff who fired a shot past Volpatti Rebels came away with a slim 5-4 win after double overtime. CosNews Photo by Brendon Nogle after Terhune had given him the puck. It was 3-0 Rebels after two. The Rebels made it 4-0 at the 6:41 mark of the final stanza on Kelly Sidomi's goal. Keith Semenoff got the assist as it appeared the Rebels were coasting to a victory in game five of the seven game series. But Beaver Valley stormed back with four third-per. iod goals. Mark Paddison started the Nite Hawk: comeback with a goal from Wayne Titus and Cory Neil. Ted Moore got the next goal from Mike Marshall and Ed Bertuzzi. Dwayne Bouliane brought the Nite Hawks to within one goal of the Rebels on a play set up by Bob Moon and Mike Dennis. The Rebels managed to protect the narrow one-goal margin right up until the 19:07 mark when Beaver Valley's Kevin Careless scored from Paddison and Moon to send the game into overtime. The opening overtime period was scoreless and it wasn't until the 12:36 mark of the second overtime period that Terhune potted the game-winner. Kevin Koor batoff drew the assist j “We all worked hard out there,” said relieved Rebel utility man Dave Zarikoff. “We got up 4-0 maybe sat a little on the lead and they came back. Rebel netminder Nick Colvin faced 33 shots in the game and said the Nite Hawks started getting the breaks in the third period. “We just let down at the end of the period and all of a sudden the puck started bouncing their way and tifat's about the way it went,” Colvin said. Jelinek happy with results CALGARY (CP) — For those who are down in the mouth about Canada's meagre 13th-place showing in the medal standings at the Winter Olym pics, Otto Jelinek has some advice: don't be blue, it’s the best ever. The federal sports minister said Saturday Canadians aren't disappoint- ed, even though the medal tally after Friday's events left the host country no better off than it was four years ago or, for that matter, 28 years ago. In fact, he said, Canada will join the winter sporting elite in a few years. After Friday's competition, Can- ada had only one silver medal and three bronze for 13th place. The four medals match Canada’s two best previous per- formances since 1948 — at Squaw Valley, Calif., in 1960 and in Sarajevo in 1984. There were chances for two more by the hockey team and figure skater Elizabeth Manley. But in terms of top-eight finishes —a statistic which Jelinek said is given a lot of weight by the International Olympic Committee — Canada was sixth, tied with the United States. Both countries had 17 top-eight results. “The fact that we've done the best by far than ever before in the top eight shows that there's a depth in our system and shows there's a tremen- dous improvement,” he told a news conference. “Those top-eight finishes are going to translate into top-five finishes by next y maybe and to top-three finishes in two or three years. There's no doubt in my mind we'll soon move into the top four in the world in winter sports.” Canada’s medal grab after 38 of 46 events falls in line with Jelinek's s pre-Games prediction of between four and eight. “No I have not been disappointed,” said Jelinek, a former world pairs figure-skating champion. The minister, who ditects Ot tawa’s Best-Ever program, a five-year, $25-million athletic development scheme, said he was disappointed for some athletes. Like skier Laurie Gra- ham, who never came close to a medal; or speedskater Gaeten Boucher, who displayed “brilliance and guts” but whose age betrayed him; and figure skater Brian Orser, whose quest for gold was fouled up by a “little slip.” “We've had several fourth-place finishes. That's the nature of the game, that’s sport.” Canada's medal totals — along with most every other country — will be dwarfed by the Soviet Union and East Germany, the runaway leaders. Community Complex. tickets are $10. Witt takes women’s Olympic skating title CALGARY — Katarina Witt won the battle of the Carmens, but Canada’s Elizabeth Manley stole the show to claim the silver medal in a dramatic Saturday evening that decided the women's Olympic figure skating title. Witt, the reigning Olympic and world champion from East Germany, won the gold, even though she finished second to Manley in the long program. The Canadian champion from Ottawa — often knocked for failing to skate under pressure — put in the perfor. mance of her life to capture the silver and the affection of the sellout crowd at the Saddledome. U.S. champion Debi Thomas, first overall going into the finale, had a sub-par performance — finishing a surprising fourth in the long program — and had to settle for the bronze. becomes the first woman to successfully defend her Olympic title since Sonja Henje of Norway won in 1928, '32 and '36. The medal for Manley was Canada’s fifth at the Games — two silver and three bronze — and the first figure skating medal by a Canadian woman since Karen Magnussen’s silver in 1972. It also was the third figure skating medal for Canada at the Calgary Games. “I knew the crowd was behind me and I was so focused from the time I started,” Manley said. “It was so over whelming. “I just felt like dancing. Both Thomas and Witt skated to the music of Bizet's opera Carmen, but the ending themes differed dramatically. Thomas, after flubbing several man oeuvres early in her program, ended her four-minute routine as Carmen ina lively whirling climax. Witt ended her routine with Carmen dying on the ice. In other medal action Saturday night, Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands won her second gold medal of the Games, capturing the women's '1,500-metre speed skating title in an Olympic record two minutes 0.68 seconds. She set the world record in winning the 13,000 metres on Tuesday. Karin Kania of East Germany was second, collecting her third medal of the Calgary Games and eighth career Olympic medal, three gold, four silver and one bronze — the most by a female skater in Games’ history. Teammate Andrea Ehrig was third. Earlier in the day, Canadian hockey hopes survived and an Italian skiing dream came true Canada’s hockey team preserved a chance for a bronze medal with a 6-3 victory over Czechoslovakia and Italian ski ace Alberto Tomba picked up his second gold medal with a powerful triumph in the men’s slalom. At the Saddledome, Canada edged Boys of summer cash in Spring has sprung in the southern « United States with the opening of major league baseball training camps, and with the new season comes another crop of sports mil lionaires. The familiar cry of “play ball!” will soon be replaced with “play banker!” The off-season has been a profit able one for the boys of summer who have managed to persuade their team owners to cough up seemingly outrageous amounts of U.S. green backs for pla; game. Baseball is still a game, isn’t it? The way salaries are going, the game is taking on a more business like attitude. Arbitration is the key word here. Following the 1985 strike settle- ment, arbitration eligibility for a baseball player was extended to three years after entering the league. A player cannot take a team owner to contract arbitration until he has played for three years in the bigs. After three years, if a player asks for a certain salary and his owner won't pay it, the player can ask for an arbitrated settlement (that's where an independent party is called in to settle the contract dispute and his decision is final and binding). Of the 108 players who filed for arbitration this off season, only 18 went to arbitration hearings. The owners won 11 of the 18 cases that went to arbitration in the last year and have won 149 compared to 118 in the players’ favor since 1974. Sporting Views By Brendan Nagle So what about the players who filed for arbitration but didn't actually go before an arbitrator? Forty-nine major league baseball players who hollered, “Take it to arbitration” for the first time in their careers averaged 114 per cent increase in their salaries without even seeing an arbitrator . . . 115 PER CENT! Their average salary went to $460,000 from $215,000. How about the St. Louis Card inals’ Vince Coleman? He quad rupled his salary in the off-season. In one year his salary went to $700,000 a year from $160,000. That's a 337 per cent increase That settlement represents the ex treme on the salary increase scale. Other players are making more money a year than Coleman but nobody else was able to negotiate such a large increase over the off season. I knew I should of persued base. ball as a career when I was younger. So what about the rest of the players who went looking for more money in the off season? Coleman's team mate Terry Pen- dileton managed to convince the St. Louis brass he was worth $660,000 a year compared with last year's $210,000 — a 214 per cent increase. The Baltimore Orioles’ Larry Sheets managed a 272 per cent increase in his salary. He'll make $540,000 in the 1988 season compared to the $145,000 he was taking to the bank last year. Czechoslovakia and placed its medal hopes in the hands of West Germany, which must tie or beat Sweden today to give the host country its first Olympic hockey medal in 20 years. Canada went up 3-1 in the first period on goals by Serge Boisvert, Bob Joyce and Ken Berry. Antonin Stav jana scored the Czech goal. The Czechs closed to within a goal at 4-3 after two periods, with Juri Sejba and Vladimir Ruzicka sandwiching a goal by Can ada's Gord Sherven. In the last period, Canada clung to the lead before Sherven scored a relatively soft goal with less than eight minutes to play and slid his third of the game into an empty Czech net with nine seconds remaining. Canada fin- ished with two victories in three medal-round games and a 5-2-1 total over the entire tournament. The Soviet Union, with its seventh Olympic victory, has already clinched the gold medal and Finland one of the other two medals. Sweden could take silver by winning today if Finland loses to the Soviets. If the West Germans knock off Sweden, Finland would get the silver and Canada the bronze. At Mount Allan, the Italian superstar nicknamed La Bomba won the men’s slalom, the last of five events, to become the only double gold medallist among the skiing glamor boys of the Games. And these guys are the pikers. There are millionaires in this league. Ted Higuera of the Milwaukee Brewers entered the elite -bloated baseball bank account set for the first time. His salary went to $1.025 million from $335,000. St. Louis Cardinal Willie McGee is now earning $1.2 million, Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins negotiated his $425,000-a-year salary into $1.09 million and Andre Dawson, the one-time Montreal Expo outfielder, managed to squeeze the Chicago Cubs organization for a whopping $1.85 million in 1988 compared with $700,000 in 1987. But the all-time winner in this year's salary sweepstakes is George Bell. The wiley Dominican managed to hold his breath long enough to get the Toronto Blue Jays to pay him $44 million over the next two years. However, not everybody man aged to negotiate increases this year and some — for shame — lost money this year. Think of poor New York Mets’ pitching ace Dwight Gooden who went to an arbitration hearing asking for $1.65 million in 1988 over the $1.5 he made in 1987. When tle dust settled Gooden's yearly salary plunged $100,000 to a paltry $1.4 million. Imagine earning a mere $1.4 million a year for starting in about 30 games a season. Even so, I certainly doubi he'll be trading the Mercedes in on a Pinto because of his loss.